Ciena introduces its Agility software portfolio

Ciena said it has introduced its Agility software portfolio. Including a multilayer SDN controller for the WAN and an initial set of three new software applications, Agility enables the delivery of virtualised, on-demand network services and functions.

It leverages advanced, real-time analytics to help network operators provision multi-vendor networks, and rapidly create and deploy new, differentiated virtualised services at lower cost.
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Ciena’s new Agility software portfolio is built using the OpenDaylight framework. This gives network operators the ability to leverage a mix of open source, self-developed and vendor components from a broad ecosystem and helps them avoid being locked-in to a single vendor.

Ciena’s new Agility Multilayer WAN Controller gives network operators agile allocation of network resources at the packet, circuit and wave layers and is designed for WAN scale, reach and resiliency. Complementing the Agility Multilayer WAN Controller, Ciena’s suite of SDN applications use advanced real-time analytics to provide greater network assurance, efficiency, monetisation and application-driven agility.

“Our customers want an ecosystem - not an ego-system with one vendor in the center trying to wrest control. Ciena’s approach strongly embraces openness for a true, vendor-neutral ecosystem. With our new Agility software portfolio, we are complementing an industry open framework with high-impact, analytics-based applications to deliver autonomic operations programmability, multilayer optimization and carrier-grade scale and availability within an agile network architecture that is dynamic and responsive to customer needs,” Francois Locoh-Donou, Senior Vice President, Global Products Group, Ciena.